Pumpkin People - Jackson, New Hampshire

Every year, Jackson, New Hampshire and the surrounding towns welcome the pumpkin people to their midst. Businesses and residents alike come up with some wonderfully clever ways to turn pumpkins into...something else! (The competitive juices get flowing, too, since votes are cast by the public to determine a winner.) I make it a point each autumn to take the "pumpkin people tour" through town to see what these imaginative folks have created while I'm in the mountains to shoot the foliage. Quite fun! Here's a sampling of 2013's handiwork: